AERONAUTICS: Flying Clubs

After a year's study (financed by
$12,000 from the Daniel Guggenheim Fund for the Promotion of
Aeronautics) the National Aeronautic Association last week was able to
present concrete plans for private flying clubs. Such clubs exist in
England and Canada, where the Governments subsidize them as an aspect
of national defense (TIME, June 3). In the U. S., club flying, like
commercial aviation, must depend on private finances, although the
Government gave commercial aviation backbone by means of mail contracts
and Government officials are now...